Manu Kau Reserve

Manu Kau Reserve is a small, compact playground in Stoke, Nelson, its equipment kept visible from a single seating position.

Equipment

Play equipment includes swings with an infant bay, a rocktopus, and a solo spinner, on bark surfacing, best suited to ages one to eight.

Access and Inclusion

On street parking serves the reserve, and there are no toilets recorded on site.

History and Cultural

Manu Kau is a Maori place name in which manu means bird and kau carries associations with swimming or moving through water, a naming pattern common to wetland adjacent places across Aotearoa, reflecting the low lying Waimea Plain landscape around Stoke before European drainage.